Subject: Re: [RFC: 2.6 patch] remove drivers/net/tulip/xircom_tulip_cb.c

From: Adrian Bunk <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 21:43:20 +0100

On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 05:34:18PM -0500, Mark Lord wrote:
> Adrian Bunk wrote:
> >This patch removes the obsolete drivers/net/tulip/xircom_tulip_cb.c 
> >driver.
> >
> >Is there any reason why it should be kept?
> 
> Yes.  It is the only driver that works
> without lockups on Xircom Cardbus cards.
> Or so has been the case any time I've tried
> the alternatives.
> 
> Is there any good reason to nuke it?

- there's a more recent driver for the same hardware
- the driver uses the deprecated virt_to_bus/bus_to_virt we want to get 
  rid of

Can you give me a pointer to your bug report containing more details 
regarding the problems you had with the xircom_cb driver?

cu
Adrian

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